Billy Crystal Quotes
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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Being evil is easy.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.
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Politics ruins the character.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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When you're a 'product' for a lot of people, they're only really after one thing, and so it's hard to completely let down your guard.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.
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Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.
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Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
